Rockfall Modelling Parameters and the Control Barrier at Stockton Mine, New Zealand
Solid Energy New Zealand plans to mine a 6 to 10m thick coal seam below the Mt. Augustus and Mt. Fredrick ridgeline at Stockton Mine near Westport, NZ. The coal is covered by up to 30m of overburden, which requires removal to access 4 million tones of high quality coal. However, the Coal Mining Leas...
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University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3520 |